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lopping

verb

present participle of lop

as in pruning

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Such weather favored flowering, and Chow responded by pruning to prevent deformed or small fruit while stepping up watering and fertilization because of the heat.

— ABC News, ABC News, 5 Aug. 2026
For specific issues with boxwood blight, Goetz recommends pruning the affected area to prevent the disease from spreading.

— Samantha Johnson, Martha Stewart, 5 Aug. 2026

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Haskell's team is also staying high in quality and coupons, trimming lower-coupon exposures in favor of those that are upward of 5% that the firm thinks are better poised to handle periods of market uncertainty.

— Darla Mercado, CFP®, CNBC, 7 Aug. 2026
Cut the fennel bulbs into quarters, trimming just a bit of the core (leave enough to hold the layers together), then slice thin.

— ABC News, ABC News, 6 Aug. 2026

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Both Carlson and Piker have recognized that people increasingly see the establishment — including politicians, police forces and the tech sector — as interested in curtailing people’s freedom.

— T.M. Brown, CNN Money, 30 July 2026
In 2018, the DNC reformed its primaries on Sanders’s preferred terms, curtailing the role of superdelegates.

— David Weigel, semafor.com, 8 July 2026

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Spot gold rose as high as $4,295 per ounce before paring gains to settle around $4,268 per ounce on Thursday.

— Joseph Wilkins, CNBC, 6 Aug. 2026
But the necessity of paring down such a massive event has the effect of flattening the very elements that ought to give it its texture and heft — namely, the people involved.

— Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 30 July 2026

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Optical zoom is almost always better than digital zoom (which is essentially just cropping a higher-resolution image), so the 3x lens is very welcome.

— Will Greenwald, PC Magazine, 30 July 2026
Meta released its Content Seal AI watermark recently, but Reuters found that simply cropping the images a bit would often eliminate the watermark.

— ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 29 July 2026

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Unlike traditional hacking attempts, the scam relies on convincing people to infect their own computers.

— Joshua Sidorowicz, CBS News, 5 Aug. 2026
Meta has now become the third major AI company within a few weeks to disclose an AI model hacking into another company’s systems during testing, highlighting not only the advanced capabilities of AI agents but also some of the potential dangers.

— Hadas Gold, CNN Money, 5 Aug. 2026

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In the space of 18 months, China has gone from lagging far behind the US to hosting multiple AI models that are nipping at the heels of Silicon Valley’s champions and gaining major traction among users globally.

— Simone McCarthy, CNN Money, 7 Aug. 2026
Condos still win on total sales, aided by a more flexible ownership structure and a housing stock that can continue to expand, but in a twist few saw coming, co-ops are increasingly nipping at their heels.

— John Walkup, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026

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